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Thursday, January 27, 2011

When the Day is Done

I love topics about sunset and sunrise. To me it represents hope and faith, and the gift of waiting. Sunsets always remind me of my dad. When I was a little girl they meant he would be home shortly. when I was older we would sit up on our roof and watch the sun set. Sunsets with my dad were always special times....they were our time. This past week I took a few sunset pictures on my trek up and down Hwy 22. The first one is on a day when snow was predicted in North Alabama. I thought the thick layer of gray clouds with the split of sunset made it look like I was heading into a lake of fire. It truly was beautiful. I am thoroughly enjoying doing Project 365 because it means my camera is always on hand. I never knew you could take such cool pictures driving down the road.....I do slow down if nothing is behind me....just FYI.

This picture is my favorite. Does it not look like there is an explosion up ahead. The sky is so blue above and then that ball of fire is peeking through the trees. I actually had to pull over to get this one. The sun was setting behind me and I could see this in my rearview mirror....and just had to see it face to face. If you can't look at this and believe in God...hummmm....something is not right!

What a cold and dreary day this was. I pulled over for this picture too. I think the temperature at the time of the shot was somewhere in the low twenties and the wind was really whipping. This sunset looked like embers to me....and were not warming like those of a fire would be. I found a wide spot in the road to stop and get this picture. Sunsets and sunrises are really cool to me. I rank them right up there with barns and hands.

My final sunset and I think it was the perfect one. You can see such detail in this one. Even though the sky is blue it was still very cold outside and I took the picture stopped in the middle of the road. There was nothing behind me and sometimes that is great coming up and down Hwy 22. I have wanted to take a picture from the Tallapoosa River bridge but have yet to find it when no one was coming either way so I could stop briefly and snap a few. I have a year to get that shot. I have started keeping a notebook of shots I want to make....and am really enjoying searching for the perfect picture every day and being creative with my pictures. I am a still photographer. I found a wonderful poem about sunsets that I thought I would leave you with today. It is by an Englishman named David Harris. I think he too sees sunsets as something very special.

HiNew follower here. I found your page via Jeannie's Happy World. I LOVE your pictures! Awesome, Sometimes when you see something like that you just have to stop and snap it. I have a new digital camera and I'm always doing that. Enjoyed my visit to your blog, do you have a button?

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I am a woman who wears many hats and loves them all. I am a singer - I sing with the group Still Magnolias. I was part of the original First United Methodist Church Arbor Praise Team until we moved. After 24+ years of teaching English 11 and Spanish I - II at Benjamin Russell High School I decided to take a job closer to home. I now teach Spanish I & 2 at Randolph Co. High School and Wadley. I thought I was getting close to retirement and looking forward to it, but decided to move my cheese and try something different. I am a preacher's wife and a preacher myself. My husband Frank is the pastor at Rock Mills United Methodist Church and I am the pastor at Midway (Wedowee). It has made our conversations interesting, to say the least.